Simple Gifts: The Hymns of My Life, A Memoir

Simple Gifts: The Hymns of My Life, A Memoir

Bill Henderson
$20.00
Publication Date: December 5th, 2023
Publisher:
Pushcart Press
ISBN:
9798985469745
Pages:
192
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Description

In this edition of Simple Gifts, you will find it fully updated with a new introduction and conversation with the author.

Honors: Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers Award 2006

In a world of internet friendships, far-flung families, and a growing sense of alienation in American life, Bill Henderson tells the story of how he found community and joyful camaraderie through the singing of old-fashioned hymns in a small wood framed country church.

About the Author

Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore – “the world’s smallest bookstore.”

Praise for Simple Gifts: The Hymns of My Life, A Memoir

Powerful… thoughtful consideration of Henderson’s life and the role hymns played in it.
— Publishers Weekly

…you will love this book.
— Peter Gomes, Memorial Church, - Harvard University

I love your book. It is wholehearted, goodhearted and extraordinarily moving to me and I’m sure to anybody who treasures the best of the old hymns.

— Wendell Berry